Ji'nan reclaim overdue drugs over a million boxes
Author: Li Yongming source: the Ji'nan times
once the expiration of the drug is not only rapidly deteriorating, but also mishandled and volatilization of harmful substances. In order to ensure the safety of drug use, the Ji'nan food and drug administration started the "expired drug recovery activities". Up to now, more than about 1000000 cases of overdue drugs have been recovered in the city. "Expired invalid drugs are disposed of without any treatment, which not only pollutes the environment, but also induces diseases." City Food and drug administration experts told reporters, and once these drugs fall into the hands of lawless elements, the consequences are even more disastrous. To this end, from 2005, the Ji'nan food and drug administration started a large public welfare activities for reclaiming overdue drugs, set up expired drug recovery points at the drugstores, and encouraged citizens to deliver the expired drugs in their homes to the recycling points, and to carry out a unified registration of the reclaimed drugs and unify the destruction. "Now, the number of drugstores in Ji'nan has been expanded from 10 to 186, and the distribution of designated drugstores is extended to the countryside." The responsible person of the food and Drug Administration of the city said that Ji'nan has established a fixed point recovery network for overexpired drugs covering urban and rural areas, and the recovery time is changed from one month to a year to the whole of the year. The incentive measures for sending expired invalid medicines were also changed from the simple gift souvenirs in the past to multiple measures. According to statistics, as of the end of December 2010, Ji'nan recovered 1 million 40 thousand cases of expired drugs (bottles) and sent 51 thousand people to expired drugs.
the Ji'nan food and Drug Administration of the city reminds us that once the expired drugs are available in the house, it can be sent to the designated reclaim drugstore certified by the food and drug regulatory department.